The mountain ridgetop settlements in Tutuila, American Samoa, attributed by Samoans to a legendary period of warfare with the Tongans that is said to date between the 10th and 13th centuries is investigated. An analysis ...

Archaeological investigations at Aganoa, a coastal site in American Samoa, western Polynesia, revealed a marine resources exploitation base for the early inhabitants of the island. A series of 19 radiocarbon age determinations ...

The timing and unprecedented speed of the Lapita migration from the western edge of Oceania to western Polynesia in the Central Pacific have long been of interest to archaeologists. The eastern-most extent of that great ...